"As happens with people who love a thing……" — George Plimpton
"As happens with people who love a thing too much, it destroys them. Oscar Wilde said, 'You destroy the thing that you love.' It's the other way around. What you love destroys you."
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14 Quotes by George Plimpton
George Plimpton has 14 quotes on this site.
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At the base of it was the urge, if you wanted to play football, to knock someone down, that was…
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I remember being awed by it - the uniqueness and nicety of style - and I suspect I was a…
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The pleasure of sport was so often the chance to indulge the cessation of time itself--the pitcher dawdling on the…
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You do not cut a check in the state of Kansas to John Doe, executioner. The executioner is paid in…
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Well, I have to write. A lot of people forget that. They think I’m sort of crazy baffoon who can’t…
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Give me good books, good conversations, and my Trek Y-Foil, and I shall want for nothing else.
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It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury.
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My favorite monologue in the book is Kate Harrington's story of her relationship with Truman.
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The New York Times published the guest list on the front page. The masks were a brilliant concept.
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I never understood people who don't have bookshelves.
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I have never been convinced there's anything inherently wrong in having fun.
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He still has the same way of calling to me, as if I'm still new to him, as if he…
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When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that…
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Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning…
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This contradiction lies here: they wish God, and they wish humanity. They persist in connecting two terms which, once separated,…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
— James A. Baldwin
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America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.
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All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The…
— Charles A. Beard
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All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact subordinate to him, and…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.
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To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.
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Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time…
— Ingrid Bergman
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Stand not too near the rich man lest he destroy thee - and not too far away lest he forget…
— Aneurin Bevan
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He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it…
— William Blake
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